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Title Networks of knowledge : collaborative innovation in international learning / Janice Gross Stein [and others]
Published Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 175 pages)
Series Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance
Institute of Public Administration of Canada series in public management and governance.
Contents Knowledge networks in global society: pathways to development / Janice Gross Stein and Richard Stren -- Knowledge production and global civil society / Janice Gross Stein -- The Canada international scientific exchange program in otolaryngology / Joy Fitzgibbon -- The coastal resources research network / Joy Fitzgibbon and Melissa MacLean -- The global urban research initiative / Melissa MacLean -- The learning for environmental action program / Melissa MacLean -- The Canadian aging research network / Joy Fitzgibbon -- Knowledge networks and new approaches to 'development' / Richard Stren -- Appendix A. Template questions -- Appendix B. Comparative characteristics of the five networks
Summary The network is the pervasive organizational image of the new millennium. This book examines one particular kind of network - the 'knowledge network' - whose primary mandate is to create and disseminate knowledge based on multidisciplinary research that is informed by problem-solving as well as theoretical agendas. In their examination of five knowledge networks based in Canadian universities, and in most cases working closely with researchers in developing countries, the authors demonstrate the ability of networks to cross disciplinary boundaries, to blend the operational with the theoretical, and to respond to broad social processes. Operating through networks, rather than through formal, hierarchical structures, diverse communities of researchers create different kinds of knowledge and disseminate their results effectively across disciplinary, sectoral, and spatial boundaries. Analysis of networks in health, environment, urban, and educational fields suggests that old categories of 'north' and 'south' are becoming blurred, and that the new structures of knowledge creation and dissemination help to sustain collaborative research
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Information networks -- Canada
Information networks -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Case studies
Information networks -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- Case studies
Economic development -- Research -- Canada
Community development -- Research -- Canada
Communication in economic development -- Canada
Communication in community development -- Canada
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Research.
Communication in community development.
Communication in economic development.
Community development -- Research.
Economic development -- Research.
Information networks.
Aufsatzsammlung
Forschung und Entwicklung
Informationsgesellschaft
Wissensproduktion
Travail collaboratif.
Réseaux d'information.
Canada.
Nova Scotia -- Halifax.
Ontario -- Toronto.
Kanada
Kanada.
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
Case studies.
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
Author Stein, Janice
ISBN 9781442677616
1442677619
1282033808
9781282033801